Automation Anywhere - String Operation Command

Automation Anywhere - String Operation Command

Automation Anywhere

String Operation Command

This command is use to manipulate a text string and store it in a variable.

Sub-commands

• Before/After - This command is use to extract text from a string.
  Example: In the text string, 'The quick brown fox jumps right over the lazy dog.' let's copy only 'fox'. We specify Before =
  'brown' with an Occurrence of 1. We also specify After = 'jumps' with an Occurrence of 1.
• Compare - This command is use to compare two strings.

  

  Compare

• Find - This command is use to find specific character's position from the string. If the specified string is a regular expression, select the check box that is provided. Insert the regular expression in the Find String field.

  

  Find

• Join - This command is use to join two or more strings from list variable.

  

  Join

• Length - This command is use to get the length of the string.

  

  Length

• Lower Case - This command is use to convert a string into lower case.

  

  Lower Case

• Replace - This command is use replace character or text from the string with a specified replacement string.

  

  Replace

• Reverse - This command is use to reverse the string.

  

  Reverse

• Split - This command is use to convert a string into the list. Specify a 'Delimiter' and optionally number of delimiters to be considered in 'Limit'.

  

  Split

• Sub-String - This command is use to extract text from a string.

  

  Sub String

• Trim - This command is use to remove blanks and spaces from a string.

  

  Trim

• Upper Case - This command is use to convert a string into upper case.

  

  Upper Case

Components of Before/After Sub-command:

• Source String - Enter a variable which contain the string or Type into a string, which you want to manipulate.
• Before - Specify a text which from where you want to extract.
• Occurrence - Specify the occurrence of the text specified in Before field.
• Logical Operator -
  • AND - This is use to ensure 'Before' and the 'After' conditions are met.
    -- For instance, when you input a string in 'Before' and if not found, the search will be aborted. The program will not search the
    string input in 'After'.
  • OR - This is use to ensure 'Before' or 'After' conditions is met. This is a default logical operator.
    For instance, when you input a string in 'Before' and if not found, the program will continue to search for the string input in
    'After'.
• After - Specify a text which from where you want to extract.
• Occurrence - Specify the occurrence of the text specified in After field.
• Number of Characters to be extracted - Enter the value to extract a text with specific length.
• Trim the extracted text - Select this option if you want to remove space and blanks from extracted string.
• Remove Enter from the extracted text - Select this option if you want to remove enter from extracted string. if contains.
• If no match found, return - This is use to return a string or null into a variable, if conditions are not met. Two options are available 'Source string' and 'Empty string'.
• Assign Output - Store extracted string into the variable.

  

  Before-After

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